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Hamas freed two Israeli hostages on Saturday when the fourth exchange of a fragile ceasefire began in Gaza.
The six -week ceasefire is The first stage From a complex three-stage deal that was beaten up by the US-von mediators who hoped for the 15-month war in Gaza Strip, which has become the deadliest round of fighting in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel’s government said the two men – Yardgen Bibas and Ofer Kalderon – were handed over to their armed forces in Gaza, which they would take out of the enclave.
A third Israeli hostage is also to be published. In return, Israel is thanks to Free 183 Palestinian prisoners later on Saturday.
In another milestone in the two-week ceasefire, a group of wounded Palestinians will later leave Egypt on Saturday on Saturday through the Rafah Kreuzsing point. Last May.
The war was triggered by the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023 on South Israel, in which militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took 250 hostages.
Israel reacted with a devastating attack in which, according to Palestinian officials, more than 47,000 people killed, which reduced most of the Gaza strip on rubble and heated up a humanitarian catastrophe in the enclave.
About 100 hostages were released during the only earlier armistice of the war at the end of 2023, while a handful of Israeli forces were saved. Israel has also accessed the corpses of several hostages.
In total, Hamas will publish 33 hostages in the exchange of around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners below the first stage of deal. At the beginning of this week, Israeli officials said that Hamas informed that eight of the 33 – to which women, children, sick and older people also belong.
During the second phase – about the Israel and Hamas in the coming days the war should begin.
The third and last phase includes the return of the remaining body houses that have died and the reconstruction of Gaza.
